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Wash Day Collection

Background imageWash Day Collection: DOLLY TUB

DOLLY TUB
A laundry worker using a dolly stock and tub to clean clothes, prior to the invention of the washing machine

Background imageWash Day Collection: Washing Board

Washing Board
A photograph demonstrating the use of a scrubbing board in a tub during washday in the early 20th century

Background imageWash Day Collection: Washing drying in the sun

Washing drying in the sun
Lines of washing drying in the sun with the outlines of roofs and chimney pots behind, in an unidentified location in either Islington or Camden, in London

Background imageWash Day Collection: Children Wash Clothes

Children Wash Clothes
Two little girls help their mother with the laundry on washday

Background imageWash Day Collection: Rabbits Wash-Day - Birthday Greetings Postcard Date: 1944

Rabbits Wash-Day - Birthday Greetings Postcard Date: 1944

Background imageWash Day Collection: Street washing out to dry, Arsenale, Venice

Street washing out to dry, Arsenale, Venice
A man stands at the end of a street hung out with drying washing between apartments in Arsenale district of Venice, Italy Date: 2013

Background imageWash Day Collection: Mangling Machine

Mangling Machine
Engraving of a woman using a mangle to squeeze excess water out of washed clothes

Background imageWash Day Collection: Dolly Tub and Wringer 1904

Dolly Tub and Wringer 1904
Dolly tub and wringer, Yorkshire, 1904 Date: 1904

Background imageWash Day Collection: Little girl on a postcard, hanging up the washing

Little girl on a postcard, hanging up the washing
A little girl on a greetings postcard hangs up the washing on the line. Date: early 20th century

Background imageWash Day Collection: Helping Mother hang up the washing

Helping Mother hang up the washing
Two children Helping Mother hang up the washing. 19th century

Background imageWash Day Collection: Little girl on washing day

Little girl on washing day
A little girl on washing day. 19th century

Background imageWash Day Collection: As Pants the Art

As Pants the Art
Cartoon, As Pants the Art. The origins of the design of plus four trousers as a man sees golfers playing golf behind a woman hanging out washing on a washing line

Background imageWash Day Collection: Boiling Clothes

Boiling Clothes
A photograph demonstrating the boiling of " collars, cuffs, laces, and such-like small articles" in a calico bag during the arduous process of washday

Background imageWash Day Collection: Drying Machine

Drying Machine
Several engravings illustrating an ingenious device for drying clothes; a forerunner of the fold-up telescopic clothes drier used instead of a line and pegs

Background imageWash Day Collection: Storyland / Washday

Storyland / Washday
Helping mama on washday

Background imageWash Day Collection: Housemaid does the laundry (Monday)

Housemaid does the laundry (Monday)
Monday: Ruth the housemaid does the laundry, unhappy because its raining and she won t be able to hang it out to dry

Background imageWash Day Collection: Washing Day in York

Washing Day in York
Washday in the back court of a working-class home, York


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